Of the Nuggets players looking for a fresh start, fresh coaches eyes to impress, Quincy Miller is near or at the top of the list. He’s young, yes. A second-round pick in 2012, Miller arrived in the NBA as a player with mounds of potential, but very raw. And on top of being raw – leaving Baylor after his freshman season – Miller was up-and-down in his only year playing in college coming off an ACL tear in his senior year of high school.

Yet he had once been described by a web site as being the next Kevin Durant.

Having had a chance to see him up close in summer league and now through a couple of days of training camp, Nuggets coach Brian Shaw has a different player comparison in mind:

Indiana Pacers star Paul George.

Not bad at all.

“To me, the closest comparison to Paul George on this team is Quincy Miller,” Shaw said. “I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I didn’t know much about him when I got here and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. He is really, really talented. At 6-10 he can handle the ball. When he gets his feet set he can shoot it from the outside and he’s got that – he smiles and he’s a nice guy when you see him, but he has a nasty disposition about himself when he’s out there on the floor.

“He has pretty good footwork. When I got to Indiana I didn’t know very much about Paul George. And then when I got there and I started working with him, I was like ‘wow, this guy could really be good if he puts in the work.’ Paul was very inquisitive; asked me a lot of questions, picked my brain about Kobe (Bryant), because Paul grew up in the L.A. area. He’s been asking me a lot of questions about Kobe and about Paul as well. So, it reminds me of that situation.”